Thursday - September 10

Fast build type of run. The run was planed for 5 miles but just wanted to push the last 1/4 mile. I did my cool down after my recorded run as I do most of my runs. This is the fastest run I have done in over 20 years. Since my dedicated retune to the sport last year I've gone from recording 10 min miles (10 Jan 08) to runs like this. WOW!

Wednesday - September 9

Bike

2h 01m 48s

35.55 miles

17.51 Mi/hr

Hill riding on the CR1. Overcast with a chance of rain and it did rain last 8 miles. EZ effort with a harder concentrated effort on the hills. Lots of short 8-12% gardes with 3 longer (1/2-1 mile) 15-18% grades. I feel very confident on the hills for SavageMan. Total ascent 3221ft and 2353 cals burned.

Tuesday - September 8

Monday - September 7

Bike

4h 30m

86.00 miles

19.11 Mi/hr

Group ride on the CR1 with some friends from World Cup Cycling. There was 11 of us starting and after 30 mile 4 turned for a shorter ride. The remaining 7 of us really picked it up. Great ride! Total ascent was over 4500 ft of climbing and 5100 calories burned.

Saturday - September 5

Bike

3h 07m

53.85 miles

17.28 Mi/hr

Yep more hills. This was a ride on the Felt with the new gearing 53-38 chain rings and 12-27 cassette. Very nice! I do think I'll change out the 53 for a 52 b/c I was climbing a lot more in the big chain ring with that cassette.

Anyway something I thought of and I think I heard it some where but can't remember where. "A short term of pain and suffering, a life time of bragging rights." This equates to today's ride and the X2 hill repeats on Turtle Ridge Rd at 22% grade. The steep part is only a 1/2 mile long but a real wake up type of climb. The decent is ALL brake and a supper view.